France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec — that's a lot of French-speaking markets. If you've got InDesign files that need to work in French, the last thing you want is to rebuild the layout from scratch. Upload your IDML, pick French, done. Accents, guillemets, non-breaking spaces — all handled.
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In Adobe InDesign, go to File → Export and choose Adobe InDesign Markup (IDML). This creates the file you'll upload.
Drop your IDML file on IDML.ai and select French as the target language. The source language is detected automatically.
Pay per document (from €3), download the translated IDML, and open it in InDesign. Layout fully preserved.
French is about 15–20% longer than English — noticeable, but manageable. Multi-column layouts and narrow caption frames are the usual suspects for overflow. A real-world example: a 4-column English brochure typically needs minor font size adjustment in 1–2 frames after French translation. Not bad. The quirk that catches people off guard: French requires non-breaking spaces before colons, semicolons, and exclamation marks. The AI adds them automatically, but if your InDesign hyphenation settings are aggressive, you may see unexpected line breaks.
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